Studying the effect of lemon and orange peels on anemia in rats

Abstract EN

Anemia is a pathological condition in which the blood's ability to carry oxygen is reduced due to a decrease in the production of red blood cells or hemoglobin, which causes fatigue and weakness.

this study aimed to use lemon and orange peel as an aid in the treatment of anemia.

forty-eight male albino rats weighing 140 ± 10 g were used in this study and divided into 8 groups.

the group contains 6 rats.

Infected rats were treated with lemon peel, orange peel and their mixture on infected mice for 28 days.

the results showed that the anemic mice treated with a mixture of lemon and orange peel had an improvement in raising hemoglobin and an improvement in liver function, and the best results were for a mixture(5%) of lemon and orange peel.

as conclusion, anemia rats treated with (5%) mixture of lemon peel and orange peel powder had improvement (HG) and liver functions compared with (2.5%) lemon peel powder.